{"id":2023,"date":"2011-10-02T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/mystic-steampunk-icelandic-radio-symbology\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:36:47","slug":"mystic-steampunk-icelandic-radio-symbology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/mystic-steampunk-icelandic-radio-symbology\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystic Steampunk Icelandic Radio Symbology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Mystic-Radio-05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Mystic-Radio-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658821346179499778\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mike, KC7IT, alerted me to this one. Check out the decoration on the top of this box. The artist <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/steampunkworkshop.com\/mystic-radio-hendricks-gin-curate-box-give-away\">explains<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;The electrolytically etched brass plate on top of the box depicts symbols used in science, engineering, and alchemy. An Icelandic Vegv\u00edsir is featured prominently surrounded by the components of a modern magnetron microwave transmitting tube. The background features the schematic diagram for a vintage Heathkit oscilloscope.<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"> The Vegv\u00edsir is often thought of as a mystical symbol but it is in fact a very practical mnemonic device for mastering navigational rules of thumb.&#8221;<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"rteleft rteindent1\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"> <br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;\">Billy has been interested in the whole &#8220;steampunk&#8221; thing (he will be a steampunk guy on Halloween) so this one caught my eye. It also made me think that we need to jazz up those Altoid tins! (Speaking of boxes, while I had the 2-B on the bench yesterday, I took its old metal case out to the garage and gave it several coats of black paint. It looks wonderful.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our Book Store: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike, KC7IT, alerted me to this one. Check out the decoration on the top of this box. The artist explains: &#8220;The electrolytically etched brass plate on top of the box depicts symbols used in science, engineering, and alchemy. An Icelandic Vegv\u00edsir is featured prominently surrounded by the components of a modern magnetron microwave transmitting tube. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/mystic-steampunk-icelandic-radio-symbology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mystic Steampunk Icelandic Radio Symbology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iceland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}